Redundancy / Live-Action Films

aka: Film

• In a trial scene in A Few Good Men, there's this line of questioning of the witness Colonel Jessup:
  Col. Jessup: I felt his life might be in danger once word of the letter got out.
  Lt. Kaffee: Grave danger?
  Col. Jessup: Is there another kind?
• The title of Rockumentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
• In the Apocalypse film series, the name of the One World Order is One Nation Earth, or O.N.E., just in case you don't get it the first time.
• Austin Powers: "Allow myself to introduce... [awkward pause] myself."
  • "What do you know about... my father's where... about... s?"
• From Bad Teacher:
  "You can explain it tomorrow to the principal and the superintendent at the meeting you have with the principal and the superintendent tomorrow at the meeting. Tomorrow!"
• Barbie (2023): After taking over Barbieland with the patriarchy, Ken renames her Dreamhouse into "Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House". Despite some of the other characters pointing out that "Dojo", "Casa", and "House" all mean the same thing he continues to call it that. It even quickly becomes a best seller in the real world.
• In Batman Begins the Gotham City Police cars are clearly labeled "GPD POLICE". Gotham Police Department Police?
  • Clearly they're the police police who police police.
    • But if police police polices police, who polices police police?
    • Police police police polices police police!
    • They don't seem very effective.
• Lampshaded in Blazing Saddles:
  Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications?
  Applicant: Rape, murder, arson, and rape.
  Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice.
  Applicant: I like rape.
• Cannonball Run II:
  Don Canneloni: In the past, the Canneloni family was the most powerful of the families. We controlled drugs, prostitution, extortion, prostitution, gambling...
  Slim: Uh, you said "prostitution" twice.
  Don Canneloni: Well, I like it.
• Dangerous Men: One character is literally called Police Detective. On top of that, the badges in the film say policeman police.
• Roger Ebert, in his review of Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo made the observation that the movie's title is redundant.
• Used twice in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story. First with the ADAA, the American Dodgeball Association of America, and then with Patches O'Houlihan's Five D's of Dodgeball: Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and... Dodge.
  White Goodman: Get off of me, don't you touch me! It is over between us, Kate. Nobody makes me bleed my own blood - nobody!
• Drive, He Said:
  Gabriel: I'm sane, I'm right, and I'm sane. I'm right and I'm sane.
• A UK TV spot for The Equalizer warns viewers that the film contains "Strong bloody violence, sexual scenes, and strong violence".
• The Evil Dead movies lift Lovecraft's Necronomicon as a major plotpoint, adding the Latin suffix "ex mortis." Since "Necronomicon" is already derived from the Greek "book of the dead," the full name is basically "The Book of the Dead of the Dead."
• Exit 0: When describing the contents of the videotape to Detective Mueller, Billy says they're disturbing twice in quick succession.
• The Eye Creatures was infamously re-titled for re-distribution as Attack of the The Eye Creatures.
• The url of FeardotCom's titular website is feardotcom.com. It so happened that fear.com was already owned.
• "The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club."
  • "The third rule of Fight Club, is that mixing orange juice and concrete makes anything but the world's third worst screwdriver."
  • "The first rule of Robot Club is: You do not talk about Robot Club. The second rule of Robot Club is: You do not talk about... no, wait, I got that wrong. The second rule is: No smoking."
    • Why can't we smoke?
    • Shh! We're not supposed to talk about it!
  • "The first rule of Punch Club, is that you do not talk about Punch Club."
  • The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.
  • "The first rule of dodge ball is-" "Do not talk about dodge ball?"
  • Subversion: "The first rule of Film Club is we don't talk about Film Club. The second rule of Film Club is—" "We don't talk about Film Club?" "No! That's the first rule, don't you listen?"
  • Another subversion, from the "I've Never Seen Star Wars" episode with Jan Ravens, uttered by host Marcus Brigstocke: "The first rule of Women's Fight Club is that EVERYONE talks about Women's Fight Club!"
• From The Gamers: Dorkness Rising after a TPK:
  Leo: You are supposed to keep healing me!
  Gary: Which brings me to my lack of powers which I didn't have after I lost them! Did I mention losing my powers?"
• Lampshaded and justified in Get Smart:
  The Mole: It's over, Max. I'll be taking that briefcase now.
  Max: If you want it, you'll have to take it.
  The Mole: That's... what I just said.
  Max: I know; I was just trying to annoy you.
• Also from Ed Wood, in Glen or Glenda the narrator offers the following observation:
  Glen is not a homosexual. Glen is a transvestite, but he is not a homosexual.
  • Possibly justified, as the two are regularly confused for each other.
• Gooby: When Willy tries getting Gooby to stay in the basement, Gooby lists three reasons why he's not staying in there.

  Gooby: One, it's dark. Two, there's no light. Three, it's dark.

• The catchphrase of Good Burger.
  "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger..."
• Hot Shots! Part Deux
  Saddam: Now I will kill you until you die from it, you imperialist yankee doodle dork of a pig!
• The Hateful Eight
  Jody: Judy said something about the best coffee in the world.
  Oswaldo: Yes I do believe Judy said something about the best coffee in the world.
• Help!: "Two lagers and lime, and two lagers and lime."
• John Cusack's character in High Fidelity says his favorite book is "Johnny Cash's autobiography 'Cash' by Johnny Cash".
• Inception: The title, Inception, is displayed three separate times in the end credits. Inception.
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:
  Indy: Their treasure wasn't gold; it was knowledge. Knowledge was their treasure.
• The Informer: "Whenever you see one of us you'll see the other, or vice versa, as the case may be."
• Jurassic Park
  Malcolm: Now eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, RIGHT ?
• An MGM short from 1935 called La Fiesta de Santa Barbara uses this for humorous effect during one of its narrator's helpful translations: "You may be asking, what is a 'fiesta'? Well, 'fiesta' comes from the Spanish word 'fiesta', which means... 'fiesta'."
• Last Action Hero:
  Nick: There are lots of things worse than movies: politicians, wars, forest fires, famine, plague, sickness, pain, warts, politicians...
  Jack Slater: You already mentioned them.
  Nick: I know I did. They are twice as bad as anything else.
• One of the many Narmy lines from The Last Airbender.
  Yue: This time we show the fire nation that we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs.
  • Also, "There is a spiritual place. The city was built around this place." And, "We have to find teachers, teachers to teach you bending!" Although it has been pointed out that the latter actually sounds like a line that Sokka from the original series would say, being such a Deadpan Snarker. In the movie, though, Sokka says the line completely seriously.
• From the credits for Lethal Weapon 3: "Story by Jeffrey Boam; Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam and Jeffrey Boam & Robert Mark Kamen."
  • That actually makes sense. In writer credits 'and' means both writers separately wrote a draft each. '&' means both writers worked together and wrote a single draft. So here Boam wrote a draft by himself and then the two writers worked together on a draft. It makes a big difference to how much money they get.
• The Little Hours: At the nuns' trial, Bishop Bartolomeo notes that Fernanda is guilty both of laying with women and homosexuality, admitting it's the same thing, though they separate it.
• The Little Rascals: During Alfalfa and Darla's 1st meeting with Waldo:
  Darla: I'll be appearing in the talent show coming up.
  Alfalfa: Yeah! The two of us will both be singing a duet. Together.
  Waldo: How redundant.
• Lost in Translation has the airport announcer right at the beginning: "Welcome to Tokyo International Airport. Welcome."
• The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra when The Skeleton explains its plan.
  The Skeleton: Once I am bought back to life, together you and I will rule the World together.
• In The Man with the Golden Gun, J.W. Pepper recognizes James Bond from the previous movie:
  "You're that secret agent! That English secret agent! From England!"
• From Mean Girls, after Regina has gotten back together with Aaron despite knowing that Cady likes him:
  Cady: Why would she do that?
  Janis: Because she's a life ruiner. She ruins peoples' lives.
• Manos: The Hands of Fate has so many examples that they would fill this page.
  • Michael: "She's my baby. She'll understand. She's my baby. She'll understand."
  • The Master: "Arise my wives. Give ear to the words of Manos. Arise my wives! And hear the will of Manos!"
  • Torgo: "There is no way out of here. It will be dark soon. There is no way out of here."
    • "It'll be dark soon."
  • "There is nothing to fear, madam. The Master likes you. Nothing will happen to you. He likes you."
  • "Dead? No, madam. Not dead the way you know it. He is with us always. Not dead the way you know it. He is with us always."
  • Torgo seems to think the Master would not approve. Even his theme is redundant.
  • Even the title is redundant when knowing that "manos" is Spanish for "hands." Hands: The Hands of Fate
• In Mickey Blue Eyes, the name of Hugh Grant's father-in-law's restaurant is "The La Trattoria," which roughly translates into "The The Restaurant."
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail used this in the famous "Holy Hand Grenade" scene. "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceedest on to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
  • The "Five is right out" line is referenced in another example of redundant repetition; see The Powerpuff Girls.
• Little-known movie My Life's In Turnaround has a scene where the two main characters (roommates) are fighting, and one tells the other:
  "Go ahead and leave! Just leave me here. Then I'll die alone and, and, and dead and ... alone."
• Mystery Team
  Charlie: And THIS is the LUMBERYARD!
• A Night at the Opera: "The party of the first part shall hereafter be known in this contract as the party of the first part..."
  • Also, from Horse Feathers: "Members of the faculty and faculty members, students of Huxley and Huxley students. That about covers everyone."
• The Jess Franco horror movie Nightmares Come At Night. The repetitive title is a side-effect of the translation from the original French Les cauchemars naissent la nuit, as the French words for "nightmares" and "night" are not phonetically similar.
• Pacific Rim: "First, never touch me again. Second, never touch me again."
• The Philadelphia Story:
  Macaulay Connor: After which I deposited Tracy on her bed in her room, and promptly returned down here to you two - which doubtless you'll remember.
  Dexter Haven: Doubtless, without a doubt!
• Pirates of the Caribbean
  • On Stranger Tides:
  There is a girl. A female. Of the opposite sex.
  • Dead Man's Chest:
  Will: "You want me to find this?"
  Jack: "No. You want you to find this. Because the finding of this finds you incapacitorially finding and/or locating in your discovering the detecting of a way to save your dolly belle ol' what's-her-face. Savvy?"
• The infamous Plan 9 from Outer Space features this prediction from the opening narrator Criswell:
  Future events such as these will affect you in the future.
  • The film also features the line:
  Inspector Clay is dead, murdered.... and somebody's responsible!"
• Lampshaded in Robin Hood: Men in Tights:
  Prince John: Send word to one and all, and all and one... it's a little redundant, isn't it?
  Announcer: WOOOOT?!
  Prince John: SHUT UP!!
• Rock of Ages:
  Patricia Whitmore about Stacee Jaxx: "This man spews out three things: sex, hateful music...and...sex!"
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  "Janet!"
  "Dr. Scott!"
  "Janet!"
  "Brad!"
  "Rocky!"
  [grunt]
  "Janet!"
  "Dr. Scott!"
  "Janet!"
  "Brad!"
  "Rocky!"
  [grunt]
  etc.
• A non-verbal version appears in Rogue One where Saw Gerrera's goons put bags on the heads of the party in order to capture them. Including a blind person.
  Chirrut Imwe: Are you kidding me? I'M BLIND!!!
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World:
  • The advertising tagline that appears on the movie poster is "An epic of epic epicness."
  • About halfway through the movie, the evil ex-girlfriend ninja delivers this gem: "Next time, I'll be deadly serious next time."
  • Scott introduces his teenage girlfriend to his roommate: "Hey, Knives, this is Wallace Wells, my cool, gay roommate. He's gay."
  • Scott at one point uses the insult "You cocky cock!"
• Shamelessly and happily done in the title of Sharknado 2: The Second One: Yes, it's not the third one nor the first one. It's the second one.
• Singin' in the Rain has this gem from Lila Lamont: "It makes us all feel as though all our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'."
• Star Wars:
  • In the Turkish translation (not to be confused with "The Man Who Saves the World", a.k.a. Turkish Star Wars), the line "The Jedi's strength comes from the Force." turns into "Jedi'ın gücü Güç'ten gelir." which in Turkish roughly means "The Jedi's power comes from the Power.", roughly. That translation has now become a minor Turkish meme.
  • If you want to get technical, the word ending -ling means young/beginner. So Youngling means young-young. Sorta made the line "He killed the younglings" lose all drama, as well as just making most people crack up.
  • In Rogue One, K-2SO gives us a golden example when trying to pass himself off as a normal Imperial droid escorting some prisoners.
    K-2SO: I am taking these prisoners to imprison them... in prison.
  • A New Hope: In the special edition, most of the lines from the Jabba scene are the same ones Han and Greedo had already traded in the cantina. The reason for this is that when the Jabba scene was originally cut, the lines were moved to the Greedo one. However, by the time the special edition came around and re-added the Jabba scene, Harrison Ford was too old to record different lines while he was reaching for the blaster.
• Used in Charity's monologue from Sweet Charity:
  "You know what I did today? I looked at furniture. Bedroom sets, kitchen sets, bedroom sets, living room sets, bedroom sets."
• A Disney+ advertisement for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version), with a giant picture of her, includes the phrase "Starring Taylor Swift". Just in case you thought she wouldn't be in her version of her concert film.
• Ten Inch Hero
  Jen: Alright, so we have chocolate, sleeping bags, food, personal items, chocolate, money, chocolate, and beer.
  Piper: Do you think we have enough chocolate?
  Jen: I'll add it.
• The Third Saturday In October Part V: A tagline of the film is "He's back! Again! Just like the last time!" Since this is actually the first movie in the series, the tagline is ironic.
• Larry Donner of Throw Momma from the Train teaches a creative writing class; the film shows one such class early on where a student is reading her composition, which is chock-full of redundancy and other Stylistic Suck.
  "Dive, dive!" yelled the captain through the thing. So the man who makes it dive, pressed a button (or something) and it dove, and the enemy was foiled again. "Looks like we foiled them again!" said Dave. "Yeah!'' said the Captain, "We foiled those bastards again, didn't we, Dave?" "Yeah," said Dave. The end.
• Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie features this exchange near the beginning:
  Lt. Stone: Boys, listen up, because you know how I hate to repeat myself. I HATE to repeat myself.
  Bulk: You just did, sir!
• Tropic Thunder opened with fictitious trailers starring the characters played by the main cast. Special mention goes to Ben Stiller's character Tugg Speedman, who stars in the trailer for Scorcher VI.
  Announcer: Now, the one man who made a difference five times before is about to make a difference again. Only this time... it's different.
  • The stinger for the trailer then has the Scorcher throw one last zinger.
  Scorcher: Here we go again... again.
• In Under the Piano, a doctor wonders if Rosetta's "mental illness" was caused by a "congenital birth defect."
• From What Happens in Vegas: "She is a wily temptress [...] and what do wily temptresses do, Jack? They tempt, in a wily fashion."
• Zoolander:
  Derek: Maybe you don't understand that the world doesn't revolve around you and your 'Do whatever it takes, ruin as many people's lives, just so long as you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose, or people you leave dead and bloodied along the way, just so long as you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose, or people you leave dead and bloodied and dying along the way?'
  • And why male models?
  • Also:
  Anybody: It's that Hansel!
  Mugatu: He's so hot right now!
• This announcement by a sergeant in Zorro, the Gay Blade:
  "Zorro, the bandit, for crimes against the peoples, and against the country, and against the state, the city, and the village, you are sentenced to be executed, until you are dead!"

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